We are living in a technology-driven world, so we often spend our days in the office, without physically needing to see or talk to another person. All our digital devices, gadgets, and the Internet ease our communication, so we can work and order our food, coffee, and everything else we need without leaving the room.

Technology is not inherently bad, but it made us isolated and separated. We sometimes forget the importance of kindness and helping, which bring great happiness in life. The fastest way to experience joy is by serving others.

One old Chinese proverb says:

“If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.”

Animals never forget to help each other and ease the tough life in the animal kingdom. You have surely already heard some stories about animals rescuing their friends and helping each other.

The following photos of a goose warming up a shivering puppy with its wings are another example of this. The goose uses its beak to pet the cute little puppy to ensure it sleeps comfortably under its warm, wings.

Oh, they melt my heart!

Some animals are especially friendly and easily establish relationships with animals from another species. What differentiates friendship from survival is that the animals have no other benefit from these relationships than having the other animal’s company.

Dogs are well known to be docile and kind beings that can make friends with almost any other animal.

Similarly, most geese are friendly, and with personality galore, and some may bond with you much like a dog, follow you around, observe everything you do, and give you “gooseneck” hugs.

Therefore, we should not be that surprised by this duo!

Scroll down to see the puppy sleeping comfortably under the goose’s wings:

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Friendship adds joy, love, and happiness to our days, and when with true friends, we know we are safe, protected, and cared for. A good friend has your back, supports you, and helps when you are in trouble.

Not long after she was rescued from the streets with her siblings, three years ago, Lana, an 8-month old puppy from Brazil was adopted bySuelen Schaumloeffel and her fiancé.

Lana finally got the warm home she deserves, regular meals, and owners that adore her.

Yet, she clearly hasn’t forgotten what it’s like for other dogs who aren’t as lucky to live in a loving and secure home. When the weather became colder, Suelen bought a thicker blanket so that Lana could be cozy and warm in her doghouse.

The next morning, as Suelen’s fiancé was about to leave for work, he saw something strange in front of their house. Lana was lying near their fence with her new blanket, which she had dragged outside to share with another dog out on the street.

Suelen says that she has seen that dog before, but she doesn’t know if it is stray or not as he would run away every time she tried to get near him to check for an ID tag.

She said:

“I thought, ‘How beautiful what she did for her friend,’ my best four-legged friend reminded me of something so important: generosity!”

Since that day, the couple has seen the dog a few times, but they couldn’t hold him to help him if he was lost. Yet,keep leaving food and water outside their home.

Suelen adds that Lana would do anything to help her friend:

“She is the nicest little dog I’ve ever met. We forget sometimes the difference we can make in someone’s life. She reminded me of this.”

Suelen posted a photo of the two friends on Facebook, and it quickly went viral. People were amazed by the act of generosity of Lana, so the photo has been shared over 27,000 times, and it has thousands of comments.

Suelen wrote:

“Seeing the friend without a home and cold, Lana did not hesitate to share the blanket. She took it to the fence and offered a piece to her friend. Each on one side of the fence, but both warm. I swear that when I saw this record I was moved. I was so overwhelmed by her generosity!”

Generosity comes in all shapes and sizes. The generous ones in spirit appreciate others, think of others, value them, and give to them. Generosity brings incredible freedom and empowerment to both, the giver and the receiver.

In our efforts to become more eco-friendly and reduce our exploitation of nature we’ve accomplished some pretty great things. We’ve had a few misfires as well, however, and hand dryers in public restrooms might be part of the latter. That seems even clearer now as a new study piles on evidence against hand dryers and shows how they suck up fecal bacteria from the bathroom air and blow it back at our hands (1).

The study was published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology and its results seem pretty conclusive.

How does it work?

Every time we flush the toilet, be it at home or in a public bathroom, as long as the lid is not closed fecal bacteria shoot into the air. This effect is called toilet plume. That’s why it’s smart to put the toilet’s lid down when flushing or to keep your toothbrushes in a bathroom cabinet.

While toilet plume is manageable in our own bathrooms, however, it’s much more difficult in public restrooms where the toilets are flushed constantly.

How much bacteria are we talking about?

During their research, researchers exposed one set of plates to 30 seconds of hand dryer restroom air and a second set – to 2 minutes of the same restroom air but with the dryers off. The results were quite surprising.

The plates exposed to hand dryers had between 18 and 60 bacteria colonies per plate while the one exposed to non-dryer restroom air had less than 1 bacteria colony per plate even though they had spent 4x more time in the restrooms.

The researchers also used a third set of plates in restroom air with only a small fan circulating the air around them – that set of plates had an average of 12 to 15 colonies per plate.

Of all the bacteria on the plates, 2 to 5% of them were spore-forming colonies called Bacillus subtilis PS533(2). B. subtilis is a naturally-occurring bacteria that are fairly benign. It’s expected to be in bathroom air with lots of toilet plume. The problem is that there are large quantities of other foreign bacteria. A lot of them are potentially pathogenic and hand dryers are an excellent way to spread them to every single person who uses the restroom.

“These results indicate that many kinds of bacteria, including potential pathogens and spores, can be deposited on hands exposed to bathroom hand dryers, ” the researchers explained. “And that spores could be dispersed throughout buildings and deposited on hands by hand dryers.”

The authors of the study also mentioned that HEPA filters installed in the hand dryers seemed to lower the spread of bacteria by a factor of 4 but not completely.

“Bacteria in bathrooms will come from feces, which can be aerosolized a bit when toilets, especially lidless toilets, are flushed.”

Hand dryers vs paper towels

As bad as hand dryers are, paper towels are pretty wasteful from an ecological standpoint. So, which should we use?

From studies such as this one, it seems clear that paper towels are the more hygienic option for us to dry our hands. At the end of the day, the negative impact of paper towels on the environment can be negated if we simply start replanting more of the forests we cut down. The negative effects of hand dryers, however, can be much more detrimental to our health.

If you want to avoid using paper towels, just keep a piece of cloth in your pockets when you go out.

These awful images were shared on Twitter. Many people think that they came from a popular holiday spot for western tourist called Phuket.

Blood can be seen dripping from the elephants’ heads as their masters hit them with sharp metal hooks constantly.

Scars can be seen on some of the elephants’ heads from older wounds.

Abang Da Balik originally posted the pictures on Twitter in April of this year. Since then, these images have gone vial again, which drew the comments from officials in Thailand.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Thailand drawn to the attractions where they can feed, ride, and watch the elephants perform tricks. These tourists are now urged not to ride the animals or support the businesses that offer this kind of services.

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You can stop inhumanity tortured on elephants by stop riding an elephant!

Currently, 3,000 elephants are being used for entertainment all over Asia as stated by the World Animal Protection. More than 77% of these elephants are treated inhumanely.

Thailand is going through a difficult phase trying to eliminate animal cruelty in the country.

At the moment there are 3,500 wild and 4,500 domesticated elephants living in Thailand. Even though wild elephants are law protected, domesticated elephants are seen by the country as working animals.

Dr. Patrapol Maneeorn, a wildlife veterinarian of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation, states that the Thai government agencies tried many methods to stop the abuse of animals. These methods include policy-making, support for research on wildlife, rehabilitation of injured animals, and stopping the illegal trade of wild animals.

He urges tourists to boycott the attractions that abuse elephants for entertainment purposes.

To tame an elephant, the process is just as horrific as the treatment they are getting once they are tamed and made to entertain.

The animals that are in captivity are beaten with bullhooks and other sharp and metal objects just to make them behave. After these animals are tamed and captured in captivity, the abuse on them continues.

Some of the elephants start swaying their head from left to right which is misunderstood as a playful tendency. However, this movement is a coping mechanism used by isolated elephants.

Elephants are forcefully taken from their mothers while they’re still calves and later are forced to undergo a lifetime of abuse.

There are sanctuaries in Thailand that want to fight and prevent the abuse of animals. Elephant Valley is a place where the animals can roam where they please and are only fed by humans once a day.

The Story of Maggie – A five-year-old dog from Lebanon needs to expand to let people know that his ear is cut off, his eyes are cracked and his jaws are helplessly broken because she was shot 17 times.

Wild Heart Charity found Maggie tied to a box. She was pregnant when they found her and saved her. The concerned citizen in Lebanon posted Maggie’s poor condition, pointing out that Maggie is a true survivor, and she remained positive despite her horrible experiences. Her life took a 360-degree turn when subsequently catching the attention of a 25 years dog lover in the UK named Kasey Carlin.

This story of Maggie has won the hearts of thousands with unwavering inner strength.

After quality rehab, Maggie began training as a helper dog.

In one of Kasey’s beautiful and heartfelt Instagram posts, it was revealed that Maggie had passed the dog therapy test.

Kasey stated her intention to visit the schools Maggie had completed and to continue to share the story of her and her contributions to her current role as a verified therapy pooch with Underdog International.

Following everything that happened to Maggie on her Instagram page, she now has over 100,000 followers. Her popular name with which she captures her new life journey is “sweet happy disabled rescue dog.”

Stories like this have moved hundreds of people to incredible acts of generosity and inspired the rescue of many more dogs just like them! With the help of many generous people can be provided care, treatment, and homes for hundreds more dogs with severe disabilities and injuries.

Today, Maggie’s life keeps getting better, because she has so much love and kindness to give. Maggie’s strength is an inspiration for many and may you touch more lives.

Here is a comment of one of the followers:

“And whoever did this to her could have just taken her to a humane society. Or maybe they were just doing for fun. Despicable. She is a beautiful dog. I had a German Shepherd that looked almost just like her. And she was a very beautiful dog.”

Photos sent back by Curiosity show what looks like an armored alien soldier keeping an eye on the curious Rover. Is NASA under surveillance?

While searching through NASA images captured by the SUV-sized explorer, the owner of YouTube channel Paranormal Crucible made a strange discovery that could constitute yet another piece of evidence towards proving Martian life exists. Or once existed.

Sitting amid the dust and boulders on the Martian surface was a figure eerily reminiscent of a buff warrior wearing combat armor and holding what looks like a gun. An alien soldier perhaps?

The weird appearance doesn’t appear to be a living creature but rather a stone sculpture that has somehow managed to stand the red planet’s harsh test of time.

If this is a statue indeed, it was definitely meant to represent something. The menacing look and defiant stance attest to its possible warlike character. That would be quite fitting.

In Roman mythology, Mars was the god of war and the Solar System’s fourth planet was named after him. Seeing Mars in the sky was considered an omen and its apparition often foretold conflict.

Did the ancients knew something about Mars, something that was lost over time? Or was the naming just a coincidence?

“This intriguing object looks artificial in nature and in my opinion, is an ancient statuette,” the video description reads.

“The odd thing about this one is that it does resemble an alien grey or possibly an insect type species of alien.”

This discovery has given rise to much dissension between alien enthusiasts and skeptics, with one side claiming proof of ancient aliens on Mars has been found and the other invoking the pareidolia pretext.

Pareidolia refers to a psychological phenomenon where the human mind is somewhat tricked by the sensory input it receives and ends up seeing familiar shapes where there aren’t any.

Whenever you look at clouds, for example, and you see faces, animals or objects, pareidolia is hard at work.

When it comes to rocks, the pareidolia phenomenon becomes even more explicit and there’s even a name for it: microliths.

Rocks that have become weathered through erosion and the passing of time often come to resemble faces. The more complex the rock, the greater the chance of seeing a face hidden amid its features. These types of rocks are referred to as mimetoliths, or rocks that mimic.

Could this phenomenon account for the numerous sightings of controversial figures and forms on Mars? Or is this just what they would want us to believe? Are the particularities of the human mind being used against those searching for evidence that we are not alone?

UFO enthusiasts are convinced this is the case and there really are things we can’t explain on Mars, the Moon and possibly the rest of outer space.

As always, UFO expert Scott Waring expressed his views on the matter.

“It’s a bipedal species that has a uniform on,” he wrote on his alien-centered blog. “The alien soldier is wearing a suit and carrying some weapon of sorts. The important question is, is it a statue, or was this person petrified (turned to stone) by a gruesome, yet powerful weapon?”

Wow, now that compounds the mystery. It’s one (major)or thing to find evidence of ancient inhabitants in a planet’s distant past in the form of art or artistic depictions such as statues.

But discovering the petrified remains of an ancient warrior forever locked in combat position would be something different altogether.

His stance would seem to suggest he was ready for something when a cataclysmic event, a Martian Pompeii of sorts froze him in the posture we now see.

Going further along this scenario opens up a majestic can of worms filled with largely unanswerable questions.

Was this the result of a cataclysmic but natural event? If so, did it completely wipe out the Martians?

Another possibility would be the activation of a horrific weapon capable of petrifying all those it was aimed at. Does this bring to mind yet another ancient myth? Remember the ancient Greeks’ Medusa? Was she of Martian descent? Was she a metaphor for a weapon?

A civilization capable of building such a weapon would certainly be much more advanced than we are today. Its members would probably enjoy amenities far superior to those savored by even the most elitist of earthlings.

Space travel wouldn’t pose a problem so we could expect that civilization to have visited Earth when they were still around. But the question is: were there humans on earth at that time?

If the answer to this question is yes, it would certainly suggest the ancient gods were flesh-and-bone creatures, the only difference between them and their worshippers being the technological level their culture had reached.

The ancient astronaut concept is definitely not alien to alien enthusiasts so this hypothesis keeps its traction with conspiracy and UFO advocacy groups.

In the end, there is no way we can find the truth behind the strange things photographed on Mars save for traveling there and inspecting them ourselves. NASA does not support the alien hypothesis, claiming they are all just rocks. Maybe SpaceX will be more transparent in their disclosures but we still need to wait a few decades until they get there.

Astronauts went out there and saw strange things that took a toll on their lives. Claudie Haigneré is one of them.

The incident took place in 2008 but was once again brought into attention by the controversial death of Max Spiers. Spiers was a British UFO investigator who was found dead on a friend’s couch after texting his mother that she should start an investigation if anything happened to him. It seems that those who encounter or pursue extraterrestrials are destined to get in trouble.

Claudie Haigneré is a French doctor and politician but prior to that, she was an astronaut. In 1996, Claudie and her husband, Jean-Pierre Haigneré spent more than two weeks aboard the Russian MIR space station.

Having studied rheumatology and neuroscience, Claudie’s outer space research aimed to provide insights about how astronauts adapted their motor and cognitive skills in zero gravity.

In 2001, she became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station. She saw things that regular Joes never get to see. And it probably left a mark on her.

Claudie retired from space work and between 2002 and 2005 she became involved with politics, acting as a minister delegate for research and new technologies. Following budget cuts, she started working in a biology lab at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Obscure media reports claim that while there, Claudie was at the forefront of human/alien DNA research. And then things started going south for her.

IN 2008, A FIRE RAVAGED THE LABORATORY SHE WORKED IN:

FIRE BROKE OUT WEDNESDAY IN A BIOLOGY LABORATORY AT THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE IN PARIS, FAMED FOR RESEARCH ON FIGHTING INFECTIOUS DISEASES, OFFICIALS SAID.

NO VICTIMS WERE REPORTED, AND NO SENSITIVE MATERIALS OR VIRUSES WERE AFFECTED BY THE FIRE, WHICH WAS EXTINGUISHED BY FIREFIGHTERS, AN OFFICIAL AT THE INSTITUTE SAID. THE OFFICIAL WAS NOT AUTHORIZED TO BE PUBLICLY NAMED ACCORDING TO COMPANY POLICY.

THE CAUSE OF THE BLAZE WAS UNCLEAR.

In December of 2008, news outlets reported that Claudie Haigneré had to be rushed to a local hospital after an attempted suicide. She had taken a fistful of sleeping pills and was screaming “Earth must be warned!”

Before falling in a coma, Claudie had to be restrained. Such a strong reaction from a renowned and respected astronaut scientist could not have come without a cause. While Claudie herself blamed the whole incident on burnout syndrome, conspiracy theorists are convinced there was something darker that determined her to try and take her own life.

Sources claim that the former astronaut’s stay in Earth’s orbit opened her eyes regarding our planet’s hidden history:

FSB INTERNAL REPORTS ON DR. HAIGNERÉ STATE THAT SINCE HER RETURN FROM SPACE SHE HAD BECOME CONVINCED THAT OUR EARTH HAD BEEN VISITED IN OUR HISTORICAL PAST BY ‘ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS’ WHO HAD NOT ONLY HAD COLONIZED OUR PLANET BUT HAD GENETICALLY ENGINEERED THE THEN EXISTING SEMI-HUMAN LIFE FORMS INTO OUR PRESENT DAY HUMAN RACE.

Claudie is alive and well today but she chooses not to speak publicly about her ordeal. We can only speculate about her reasons to remain silent, but sometimes, actions speak for themselves.

During the past month or so, UFO hunters made two seemingly unrelated discoveries that immediately got added to the portfolio evidencing the signs of a strange, ancient presence on our planet. The controversial images were obtained through Google Maps, revealing two enormous underwater structures that conventional science cannot explain.

The next time you set your eyes upon a tall mountain, remind yourself that long ago, that gargantuan chunk of rock was on the bottom of the ocean. The face of the Earth is shaped by processes like erosion and accretion and what was once standing tall might now rest covered by the watery abyss. And since our planet is mostly covered with water, just imagine what things still lie unseen, hidden from our curious, collective gaze.

The first underwater edifice was spotted on July 15 by YouTube user MEXICOGEEK just off the coast of the Gulf of California and conspiracy theorists are already calling the remains of a massive alien city. Measuring over 70 miles in length, the strange structure looks like it was constructed with geometric patterns in mind. Its symmetry and straight lines stretching for tens of miles seem to rule out any natural formation, favoring the intelligently-designed hypothesis.

UFO Sightings Daily’s Scott C. Waring believes this alien base is connected to all the UFO sightings coming out of Mexico and the entire Central and South America.

“This base is huge and it’s no wonder why we hear about so many UFO sightings over Mexico,” he writes. “This base is just 45 miles away from the Mexican coast. The chances of this being an intelligently-made structure… I put that at 100 percent.”

It’s interesting to note the similarity between the structure’s arrangement and that of an airport’s landing strips when viewed from above. However, the sheer size of the tubular structures that make up the underwater network means they must have served a different purpose. It is unfortunate that we might never know what that purpose was, but unless the scientific community decides to investigate the matter in a thorough, transparent way, we’ll remain clueless. Coordinates for the underwater base here.

The second place of interest can be found near the coast of Venezuela, halfway between Curacao and Puerto Rico (Coordinates here). It has an even stranger, more discrepant architecture consisting of zigzag lines. In terms of size, it is just as massive as the one from the Gulf of California, measuring approximately 90 miles from tip to tip. But the strangest characteristic has to be its shape. What geological processes could have produced such an odd contour, exhibiting symmetry, straight lines and 90-degree angles? Is it even reasonable to comfortably assume this underwater structure is natural?

Furthermore, the mystery is compounded by another set of structural artifacts resting just 50 miles northeast of the Venezuela anomaly (coordinates). Due to its proximity, this secondary irregularity appears to be connected to the first one. Images suggest it is composed of a string of rectangular structures spread across the ocean floor in a straight line. Virtually nothing is known about these mysterious sunken objects, save for the fact that they must be huge. They are located quite close to the Bermuda Triangle’s southernmost tip but there isn’t enough data for a connection to be made.

The enigma of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena wouldn’t be complete without taking into account USOs or unidentified submerged objects. It is very possible that UFOs and USOs are the same craft, the only difference being that the latter have been spotted entering or exiting aquatic environments. Since it makes sense for an extraterrestrial presence to place its base and perform its activities undisturbed by human eyes, what place could be better than the bottom of the ocean? If UFOs are capable of traversing cosmic distances with the help of faster than light travel, surviving the pressure of the oceanic depths seems an easy task.

So if Earth’s seas and oceans are harboring otherworldly visitors, could these two anomalies be still operational? If so, they could be responsible for the numerous UFO sightings reported on or around the American continents. These places would make a great starting point in our search for alien life here on Earth. Even if they were operational a long time ago and have since been deserted, compelling evidence could still be found.

If the structures are artificial but were not made by aliens, the mystery shifts but retains its intensity. Our current technological level wouldn’t allow us to build such complex underwater constructions, meaning that whoever built them was far more advanced than we are. Both of the areas where the anomalies were discovered have been submerged for millions of years and the dynamics of the seabed would have erased all signs of their existence had they been built before the area was covered with water.

In the end, no-one can say for sure what these structures are and, until someone goes on an underwater expedition James Cameron style, the puzzle will remain unanswered.

This is one of the largest UFOs you will ever see and it might belong to a belligerent species of aliens.

YouTube channel UFOvni2012 is at it again with the remarkable discovery of an enormous unidentified object hiding amid the gas and dust in the Orion Nebula. The nebula can be found just south of Orion’s belt, so you can say it’s his sword.

The fact that a telescope was able to photograph this obscure object from so far away attests to the UFO’s incredibly large proportions. If it were to enter the Solar System, it would definitely cause some gravitational waves as its size dwarfs that of our planet by a magnitude to over 100. Such an object could not have been constructed by a civilization that did not attain at least a Type II on the Kardashev scale. If the unidentified object in the photo is an artificial craft of some type, its builders would probably look like gods compared to us.

The Orion constellation is one of the most memorable constellations in the night sky and it also has a great backstory. The mythological Orion was a great hunter with a pride to match his abilities. After boasting that he could slay any wild beast on the face of the Earth, the great hunter was ironically killed by a small scorpion.

The unidentified object was spotted hiding in the Orion Nebula

The Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42 is one of the brightest nebulae and on clear nights, you can see it with the naked eye. Located at a distance of around 1,350 light-years away, this nebula is an enormous region of gas and dust some 24 light-years across.

One of the most studied and photographed regions in the sky, the Orion Nebula has offered astronomers insight on how stars and the planets orbiting them form. In the field of UFOlogy, the nebula has also provided some valuable information about the species of aliens that inhabit our galaxy, their history and reasons to interact with mankind.

One popular theory regarding the inhabitants of the planets in the Orion constellation claims these extraterrestrials are combative and their expansionist policy has allowed them to colonize multiple areas in their vicinity and even further.

According to extra-dimensional channeler Lyssa Royal, most Orions have a Vegan ancestry while a smaller proportion originated from the Lyra star system.

“Orions have a reputation for possessing an aggressive nature and have been involved in many destructive wars,” she wrote. “Note that the masculine energy is associated with the evolution of beings from the star systems of Orion, which are related to Earth, whereas inhabitants of the Sirius star system, also very much involved with Earth, carry the feminine energy or polarity.”

Possessing highly-advanced technology, the Orions have also achieved a higher understanding of consciousness and spirituality. But their warring nature pretty much determined their path towards favoring technology over mind, physical weapons over mental prowess.

It’s been claimed that the Orions are the original creators of the Grey alien archetype, giving us a clear indicator of their ruthlessness and inscrutable plans. The same theory posits that the Orions are at war with the entities we call the Elohim, arguably the oldest group of aliens in our known universe.

Having been the first to achieve immortality, the Elohim must be immensely powerful and wise. They can be seen as the original creators, the seeders of life in the cosmos. If the Orions are in a direct conflict with these beings, it would seem they have the technology to match the Elohim, so a UFO the size of Jupiter might be one of their own space-populating arks, craft meant to disseminate their message, mentality and lineage. Or it could be some star-destroying weapon capable of obliterating entire solar systems.

If we can look at the wars of man to get a better picture of what conflict might mean, we can easily imagine the violence of a cosmic war that engulfs regions far greater than mankind’s battlefields. In the eventuality the recently-photographed unidentified object is an actual weapon, let’s hope they have no plans for us.

Russia’s Lake Baikal is renowned for its UFO and USO sightings, as well as its colossal body of water which is believed to harbor a base for extraterrestrial beings – with some recent NASA photos to prove it.

Located in Siberia near the Mongolian border, this almost desolate ancient place dating for more than 30 million years has some really fascinating stories to tell.

Being the largest body of freshwater in the world, cumulating about 20 percent of the global freshwater and with a depth of over 5000 feet, this monstrous lake is presumed to hide many underwater caves which extend under the vast region of Siberia and who knows how much further.

Underwater depths are rarely explored because of the harsh conditions encountered, not to mention the cave systems that can’t be investigated because of the small and tricky entrances that don’t allow divers to carry their scuba gear and oxygen tanks.

We have little information about such places because they are inaccessible and dangerous for divers, which makes them a perfect hiding spot for an underground base for extraterrestrial organisms.

As it happens, Lake Baikal has encountered several strange phenomena of this sort during the past years, recorded by either the military, the locals or by the UFO enthusiasts scouting the place.

According to the famous ufologist and former Soviet Naval officer Vladimir Azhazha, leaked “secret” files of the Russian government speak about an interesting episode from 1982 when military divers training in the depths of Lake Baikal encountered mysteriously shaped underwater vehicles moving extremely fast, beyond any aquatic device designed by the Soviet Navy at that time.

A few days after the bizarre sighting, the divers were training at a depth of about 150 feet when they came across a group of strange beings in silver suits, wearing only some kind of oxygen mask.

This time though, it ended tragically as the divers were ordered to capture the aliens. The beings would manage to evade the divers, three of whom would later die of decompression syndrome. The file was classified until recently.

Besides these records from the former Soviet Union, recent photos released by NASA may confirm that Lake Baikal is indeed a transition place for UFOs and USOs (unidentified submerged object) alike.

In 2009, astronauts aboard the International Space Station photographed two enigmatic round shapes from the icy surface of the lake which seem to have been formed as a result of a circular body rising from below.

One of the saucer-like cracks was found near the southern end of the lake, while the other was close to the center of the lake. Both anomalies were symmetrical and perfectly round, pointing towards the idea of a spaceship or even a mothership that broke the extremely thick ice on its way out.

Could this be one of the underwater “vehicles” spotted by the Soviet divers in 1982?

I THINK ABOUT UNDERWATER BASES AND SAY: WHY NOT? NOTHING SHOULD BE DISCARDED. SKEPTICISM IS THE EASIEST WAY: BELIEVE NOTHING, DO NOTHING. PEOPLE RARELY VISIT GREAT DEPTHS. SO IT’S VERY IMPORTANT TO ANALYZE WHAT THEY ENCOUNTERED THERE. – VLADIMIR AZHAZHA

Attracted by the strange anomalies and the depictions of locals claiming to have seen strange events involving UFOs here, a group of enthusiast adventurers traveled to Lake Baikal in 2012 equipped with different pieces of recording and scientific gear, hoping to surprise live alien activity.

One member of the expedition, Vladimir Kuznetsov spoke of another bizarre event here at Lake Baikal:

IN 1958, THERE WAS A TU-154 AIRPLANE CRASH. THERE WERE SOME REPORTS FROM THE LOCALS THAT A UFO PURSUED THE AIR CRAFT TILL IT REACHED BAIKAL WATERS RIGHT HERE. AND THERE WERE FREQUENT REPORTS OF UFO ACTIVITY AROUND BAIKAL. SO THIS IS THE REASON WHY WE DECIDED TO MEET HERE.

Within Lake Baikal might reside an advanced extraterrestrial species, sheltered by the dense layer of ice and capable of traveling through the complex system of underwater caves.

The entire vast and desolate region of Siberia could be connected through this underground system. It wouldn’t surprise us if the Craters of Siberia, that turned to lakes recently, might actually be a UFO entrance or exit, linking all deep sources of water or even our humanly realm to that of the Inner Earth.

With current advanced recording technology being more and more affordable to us, we hope that one day soon some UFO hunter will find the ultimate evidence concerning extraterrestrial life here on Earth.